Word: limpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exaggeration: after a peripatetic life as a Navy pilot, McCain was shot down over Viet Nam in 1967 and spent the next 5 1/2 years in a prisoner- of-war camp. He came out with two broken arms and a broken leg; he still walks with a slight limp and cannot raise his right forearm above elbow level. His war-hero status helped elect him to two terms in the House and, last week, to Barry Goldwater's seat in the Senate. McCain, 50, easily defeated Democrat Richard Kimball...
...Mookie Wilson reeling under fly balls in the shadow of the great wall but always catching them at the last; and poor Buckner teetering everywhere. "When you got two feet killing you," said Buckner, bracing his wobbly ankles in high black boots, "you don't know which way to limp." In the exquisite moment of game five, Buckner mounted just enough head-first slide to beach himself on home plate. It was hard to call that run unearned, but Mets errors had started again. Even though Red Sox Lefthander Bruce Hurst won his second sterling game, the first home crowd...
DAVID LYNCH'S FILMS leave you dishrag limp and beyond commentary. Blue Velvet, his new movie, a "mystery thriller" analogous to Alfred Hitchcock's "family drama" Psycho, should come with seatbelts, or restraining harnesses, whatever it takes to keep the overwhelmed viewer from being sucked into all the utter energy on the screen...
SILVER MYLAR balloons that looked like enormous, limp Fenway Franks. Whale noises. Forty-two and one-half seconds of fireworks...
...director Ronni Marshak, using a mixed bag of students, alumni and professional actors, has provided only a competent illustration of the operetta, animating the characters and plot, but failing to provide the imagination necessary to save the unhappy Yeomen. Choreography is drab and activity limp. When the show succeeds, it is through the rarely faltering cleverness of Bill Gilbert and Art Sullivan, who have never failed to provide enticing verbal and musical strands...